Today’s Connections Hints and Answers for September 14, 2024 (Riddle #460)

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Today’s connections category hints

September 14 #460

One sure way to win Connections is by becoming very good at recognizing what the categories are likely to be. This can be difficult, as there are often tricks that the editor uses to trick you. To help you get the hang of it, we have four clues for today’s categories:

• One category is about critical information for a certain beverage
• One category is about ways to input functions
• One category is about pieces of words that come before others
• One category is about words that come before a word that is typically a political title

Once you’ve examined the clues, you may find yourself needing a second nudge. If you do, we have all the category names listed for you:

	Information about wine bottle
	Console inputs
	prefixes
	___ king

Today’s connections answers

September 14 #460

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

If you want to check out a bottle of wine for yourself, you’ll want to know a little information. The type of grape that was used, the region in which it was grown, the winery it was made in, and the vintage, or year, that it was bottled. All of these things are Very important information for any connoisseur of wine And often determine personal taste and preferences.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

SLIDER was a bit of a misleading word here, as along with SUB and BURGER, it could have been a nice sandwich category. This category sounds quite nice, but, alas, the words belong in different categories. Instead, the words are All types of inputs you can find on a consoleWhich makes this category feel very 80s sci-fi. Like getting a death star ready to blow up a planet.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

PRO and SUPER seemed to go together even before I knew what the category really was. Trying to figure out that RETRO and SUB also fit was a little harder. I typically Don’t think of RETRO as a prefixSo that is perhaps the hardest part of this category specifically. SUB is also here, which unfortunately is not a sandwich, but once SLIDER was in the previous category, it was much easier to move the other two words.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

This category was a little more difficult, but as with the last category, it is often only the remaining words that are typed at the end. I tend to think That the strange words are together As it usually happens with the last category, but wanted retro and PROM to switch for a while. Eventually, I was able to figure out what the category was, but not until it was very nearly too late.

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